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What are right-wing people? – a guide for under 10-year-olds | Pride’s Purge

Right-wing people are people who think they are great. Right-wing people think everyone can be great too if only other people were a bit more like them. Right-wing people think they know how to do things better than other people.

Some right-wing people even think they know better than experts. If you have a tummy ache, normal people go to a doctor. Normal people listen to the doctor and do what they tell them to do.

But right-wing people don’t like to listen to doctors. Right-wing people think they know better than doctors.

This is Jeremy. Jeremy thinks he knows better than doctors.

Right-wing people also think they know better than firemen how to put out fires. And they think they know better than teachers how to teach. And right-wing people even think they know better than your mum how to look after you.

But right-wing people do like to help people. In fact, a lot of right-wing people spend a LOT of time telling people what to do. For example, right-wing people like to help disabled people by telling them not to be so disabled. And taking their wheelchairs off them.

And right-wing people like to help people who don’t have enough to eat by taking their bedrooms off them.

Actually Mike, on a more serious note, although you might argue that this makes perfect sense, I came across what was supposed to be a scientific study once that somehow proved that right-wing people’s brain activity is quite different to that of left-wing people. Don’t ask me for a link, because it was some time ago. 🙂